CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, MARQUE A SIX CARACTERES INCISES ET EPOQUE YONGLE (1403-1424)

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RARE BOITE COUVERTE EN LAQUE ROUGE SCULPTEE
CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, MARQUE A SIX CARACTERES INCISES ET EPOQUE YONGLE (1403-1424)
De forme circulaire, le dessus du couvercle est orné d'une scène représentant un lettré, entouré de serviteurs installés sur la terrasse arborée d'un pavillon. Les côtés de la boîte et du couvercle sont sculptés de tiges feuillagées de pivoines et de chrysanthèmes en fleurs et en boutons. L'intérieur et la base sont laqués noir. La base porte une marque à six caractères incisés de l'Empereur Yongle ; petites restaurations.
Diamètre: 18,5 cm. (7¼ in.)

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A RARE CARVED RED LACQUER CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
CHINA, MING DYNASTY, YONGLE SIX-CHARACTER INCISED MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1403-1424)

Lot Essay

Several lacquer boxes of this type are recorded, all carved with different but closely related scenes of scholars in garden settings, surrounded by pavilions and trees, with a lake in the background, flower scrolls around the sides, and inscribed with Yongle reign marks. See for example, three boxes from the Palace Museum, illustrated in Lacquer Wares of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties - The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2006, pls. 42-44
See a box with comparable pattern on the cover and bearing an incised Yongle mark sold by Christie's London, 6 June 2000, lot 192.

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